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Grit and Glam

From tabloid shots in New York to portraits of Hollywood stars, the Ukrainian photographer Weegee did it all

The Kid Stays Out of the Picture

In a secluded monastery perched high above the Pacific, one writer discovered the monk’s greatest gifts: Bob Evans and getting away from it all

Of Course It Kills Them

The secret inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s greatest novel

The Transcendental Beatle

Maeve Brennan’s New York

The collected stories of a mid-20th-century Irish writer in Manhattan recall a bygone era of Truman Capote and 50-cent martinis

Poetry in Motion

A new coffee-table book pays homage to Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures with a selection of works from the American artist’s most prolific period

Candid Camera

Inside the 1972 trial that pitted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis against New York’s most unrelenting paparazzo, Ron Galella

Bombs Away!

Past and Presents

Dollhouses, paper angels, fir trees … A new coffee-table book looks back at a century of holiday photographs from around the world

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Mystery Books of 2024

Death and deceit in Ireland from Tana French and John Banville! An L.A.P.D. cold case! A wicked widow! And much more …

The Queen of Caricature

Before Nora Ephron and Gay Talese, there was Kate Carew, a cartoonist who sat down with everyone from Mark Twain to Picasso

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

Hunker down with the holiday season’s best mysteries

AIR MAIL’s Best Coffee-Table Books of 2024

Dazzling volumes on Rosario Candela’s New York City penthouses and David Hockney’s works on paper, plus photography collections from Ernest Cole, Eve Arnold, and Ruth Orkin and a look inside an Italian home or two

Nicholas Knucklehead

The Anti–Mitford Sisters

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2024

Percival Everett’s twist on Huckleberry Finn; biographies of Reagan and Isherwood, Didion, and Babitz; and more holiday reading for every type

A Boy’s Best Friend …

At Andy Warhol’s suggestion—“she’s so-o-o interesting”—a biographer pulls back the curtain on the artist’s mother, an unsung painter in her own right

Pretty Women

Concrete Jungles

From Marcel Breuer’s early modernist designs to Le Corbusier’s pocket gardens, two new books speak to the enduring allure of brutalism

How to Write like Harlan Coben

The best-selling author shares the tricks he uses to craft a page-turner—from conjuring up villains to landing the big ending

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a history of George Frideric Handel’s popular Christmas oratorio, an examination of old age in America, and an artist’s collection of stories and paintings

A Turk’s Progress

America’s Sweethearts

A new coffee-table book presents a visual history of the United States from the 1940s to today, courtesy of Magnum photographers

Out for Bloody Babs